Heddle for looms.



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kHUDSON W. HAKES, OI" MILLBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEDDLE FOR LOOMS.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, HUDSON W. HAKEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Millbury, in the eounty of iorcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Im rovement in a Heddle for Looms, of which t 1e following is a specification, accompanied by drawings formin a part of the same, in which i ure 1 is a side elevation of my improved hedd e. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, on an enlarged scale, of one of the component wires forming one half of a heddle constructed in accordance with mv invention and also showing the completed loop at one end of the heddle to receive the heald-shaft or lingoe. Fig. 3 is a central section, on an enlarged scale, showing a mail or eyelet, formed by the "component wires of the heddle prior to their being twisted together, and Fig. 4 represents the same ortion of the heddle when the component wires of the heddle have been'twisted. to ether above a'nd belowthe eyelet.

imilar reference letters and figures refer to similar parts in t-he different vlews.

The object of my present invention is to provide a heddle having the body portion composed of a single wire. and having a mail or eye formed of wire of the same size as the body portion of the heddle', with tlie center of the eye conciding with the axial lineof the heddle, and it has for its further object to provide an improved method of construction y whichthe strength and ap earance of the heddle is improved, and t e liability of damage to the warp threads by the friction of the heddles during the operation of weav-` is decreased. eferring to the accompanyir. Y drawings 1, 2 denote the body portions of a ieddle embodying my improvement, 3, 4, are the loops l upon a larger scale in Fig. 2.

at the end to receive the heald-shaft or lingoe, and 5 denotes the mail or eye to receive the warp thread. Each of the body portions 1, 2, are formed from a single piece of Wire of suitable length to form one half of a completed heddle, and, when suitably shaped to be combined in the format-ion of a` heddle, are duplicates of each other. The wire forming one hal of the heddle is shown At one end of thewire it is returned upon itself to form the loop 3. The doubled wires are then twisted at 6, and the tip 7 of the wire is brought closely against the side of the body portion and embedded in solder, in order to form a smooth Specitlcation of Letters Patent. Y l Application tiled April 29. 1907. rarial -Io. 3'ZOQ801.

wire forms what I term a tongue 11.

Patented Feb. 18, 1908.

joint-and revent the accumulationof lint.

kOpposite t le tip 7 the wire is offset slightlyto one side, as shown fit-'8, Fig. '2, so that the 'axial line of the wire when extended will pass through the center of the twisted portion 6, also through the center of the loop 3, as indlcated by the broken line 9.

The wire 2, near its op osite end, is bent into a bow shape at 10 to ibrm one side of an eye 5, and that portion of the wire between the bow shape bend. 10 and the end of 'lte e wire 1 is bent to form a duplicate of wire 2 and the bent sections are overlapped to form an eye, as shown-in Figs. 3 and 4. I then unite the two wires together by twisting the body portions of the wires and the tongues on opposite sides of the eye, as shown at 12 and 13,

In Fig. 3 I have shown the wires 1 and 2 overla ped or placed sideby side,with the bow sha )e end 1() of the wire 2 placed opposite the ow shape bend 14 of the wire 1, and the tongue 11 of the wire 2 placed in'contact with the wire 1 and the tongue` 15 of the wire `1'in contact with the wire 2. The wires 1 and 2 are obliquely offset at 16 and 17 and the ends of the wires are chamfered at 18, 18, to form a close Contact with the oblique offsets 16 and 17. The doubled wires are. united by twistin above and below the eye 5, as shown at 12 an 13, Fig. 4, and the chamfered tips of the wires are embedded in solder, as shown at 19 and 20, Fig. 4. ,()fsetting the body portions of the wires brings the center of the eye 5 coincident with the axial line of the heddle, as indicated by the broken line 21, 21, Fig. 3, and

the oblique ofi'sets 16 and 17 also-projectover and protect the chamfered ends of the wire and `'form a base for the adhesion of solder in which theends" are embedded, removing all liability of thewarp threads becomin engaged by any projecting portions o'f the eddle.

I do notwish to confine my invention to a. heddle having Wires twisted together above and below the eye. In Fig. 3 I have shown two wires placed side by side and .my invention can be carried linto etfect by soldering the Wires together with the tips or ends of each wire covered by the offset portion of the wire.

I claim,

1. As an article of manufacture, a heddle composed of two pieces of wire with their ends overlapping in the central partof the eac lbent to form one half 'f an ee" "'10 twisted. to etberabove andbelow t cra-:eyyv

^ .and each o sald sections'havin ain-offset ad o therfseotion.

heddle, and having said o verap ing' ends bent to forma yarn eye and twiste together on opposite sides of adjacent tol said eye, withthe opposite ends 'of said wiresbent to 5 form loops to receive the heald shafts.

, 2. As'an art-'icleof manufacture', Jaheddle 'formedof du licate sections of wire fofverla pin eac'h ot er at ythe center of the hedv e# jacent.' to' said eye4 solderedto' t e endl of tbe 3. heddle'eomposed of two siligl*...WiresI'l y,

ping portionsl to bring the center of they eye 2.0 l.

substantiallylln alinement with the axis of the 'hedd1e,..and means for uniting said overv ylappingportions.

PnNELoPE CoMBEnBAon. 

